Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 32 18
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 127 23 44
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.87% 6.10% 9.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.67% 19.01% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 17 36
10th Percentile £402 £185 £185
25th Percentile £457 £350 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% +5.88% -27.66%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £588
90th Percentile £671 £543 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -13.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 459 121 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.90% 32.10% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 98 88
10th Percentile £358 £185 £187
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +11.73% -18.64%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +10 123 £505 +12.22% 18
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 3
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.87%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (61.42%) AWS
2 75 (59.06%) GCP
3 22 (17.32%) Entra ID
4 21 (16.54%) OpenShift
5 19 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (12.60%) GitHub
7 11 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (7.87%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.72%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.72%) SaaS
10 5 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.15%) ChatGPT
11 4 (3.15%) Serverless
12 3 (2.36%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.87%) Firewall
2 8 (6.30%) DNS
3 7 (5.51%) SAN
4 6 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.15%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.15%) VPN
6 3 (2.36%) VSAN
7 2 (1.57%) NAS
7 2 (1.57%) Network Security
7 2 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.57%) SSL
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.79%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.79%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.79%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.30%) Power BI
3 6 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.94%) MySQL
5 4 (3.15%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.15%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.36%) Big Data
6 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) DB2
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.79%) Parquet
8 1 (0.79%) Redis
8 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (27.56%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.83%) JIRA
3 26 (20.47%) GitLab
4 14 (11.02%) Selenium
5 13 (10.24%) Cucumber
5 13 (10.24%) REST Assured
6 12 (9.45%) Postman
7 10 (7.87%) Git
8 5 (3.94%) Gatling
8 5 (3.94%) JMeter
8 5 (3.94%) TestRail
9 4 (3.15%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.15%) LoadRunner
9 4 (3.15%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.36%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (1.57%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.57%) JUnit
11 2 (1.57%) Maven
11 2 (1.57%) SoapUI
General
1 51 (40.16%) Social Skills
2 38 (29.92%) Finance
3 26 (20.47%) Banking
4 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.15%) Law
6 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (19.69%) Lead
2 20 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (12.60%) Architect
4 10 (7.87%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (7.87%) Test Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Developer
6 7 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Test Leader
8 5 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Consultant
8 5 (3.94%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.94%) Senior
8 5 (3.94%) Test Architect
8 5 (3.94%) Test Automation Architect
9 4 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) OpenID
1 24 (18.90%) REST
2 22 (17.32%) LDAP
3 16 (12.60%) SailPoint
4 9 (7.09%) OAuth
5 8 (6.30%) SAML
6 7 (5.51%) Middleware
7 6 (4.72%) .NET
7 6 (4.72%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.94%) Kafka
8 5 (3.94%) Playwright
9 4 (3.15%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.15%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.15%) PySpark
10 3 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.36%) HTML
10 3 (2.36%) JSON
10 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.36%) RESTful
11 2 (1.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (9.45%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.09%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.51%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.94%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.15%) IoT
8 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Replication
10 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.79%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.79%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.54%) Linux
2 9 (7.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (6.30%) VMS
4 6 (4.72%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.72%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (4.72%) Windows
5 4 (3.15%) Unix
6 3 (2.36%) AIX
7 1 (0.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (54.33%) DevOps
2 67 (52.76%) CI/CD
3 32 (25.20%) Containerisation
4 27 (21.26%) Test Automation
5 26 (20.47%) Agile
6 23 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (17.32%) Migration
8 21 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (15.75%) Identity Access Management
9 20 (15.75%) Observability
10 19 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (14.17%) Analytics
11 18 (14.17%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (14.17%) ETL
12 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (12.60%) AI
13 16 (12.60%) DevSecOps
13 16 (12.60%) Microservices
13 16 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (11.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.50%) Python
2 34 (26.77%) Java
3 28 (22.05%) SQL
4 16 (12.60%) Bash
5 13 (10.24%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.72%) Go
8 5 (3.94%) PHP
9 4 (3.15%) Cypher
9 4 (3.15%) Groovy
9 4 (3.15%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.15%) Scala
9 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.36%) Bicep
10 3 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) C#
11 1 (0.79%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.94%) OCP
2 5 (3.94%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.15%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.79%) CCA
5 1 (0.79%) CISM
5 1 (0.79%) CISSP
5 1 (0.79%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.79%) NCDA
5 1 (0.79%) NCIE
5 1 (0.79%) RHCA
5 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.15%) HIPAA
3 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.15%) SLA
3 4 (3.15%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.36%) GDPR
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.79%) GRC
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (15.75%) Docker
2 15 (11.81%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (10.24%) Active Directory
4 12 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (7.09%) vSphere
6 7 (5.51%) NFS
7 5 (3.94%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.57%) Ceph
9 2 (1.57%) KVM
9 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.79%) QEMU
10 1 (0.79%) SRDF
10 1 (0.79%) XenApp
10 1 (0.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (34.65%) Kubernetes
2 34 (26.77%) Terraform
3 25 (19.69%) Ansible
4 11 (8.66%) Grafana
5 6 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.72%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.36%) Argo
7 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.57%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.79%) Istio
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 27 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.54%) Google
3 20 (15.75%) ServiceNow
4 12 (9.45%) VMware
5 10 (7.87%) Red Hat
6 9 (7.09%) Oracle
7 8 (6.30%) Databricks
7 8 (6.30%) NetApp
7 8 (6.30%) Splunk
8 7 (5.51%) OpenAI
9 4 (3.15%) Alibaba
10 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.36%) Aruba
10 3 (2.36%) Cisco
10 3 (2.36%) F5
10 3 (2.36%) IBM
10 3 (2.36%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.57%) EMC
11 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.57%) Veeam